Dear Fellow RPCV, Peace Corps was a life changing experience for me and I wish to give back by using my experience and abilities as a photojournalist. I have entered a proposal to an online competition calling for photographers to name their “Dream Assignment.” From March 3 to April 3, 2009, the ideas will be [...]
(via latimes.com) Janet Jagan, a Chicago nursing student who became Guyana’s first white and first female president decades after immigrating to the region, died Saturday. She was 88. Jagan died at the country’s state-run Georgetown Public Hospital of an abdominal aneurysm, according to government officials. In 1963, Time magazine called her “the most controversial woman [...]
What will this Act do? The Kennedy Serve America Act will: Expand opportunities for people to serve at every stage of life. Use service to meet specific national challenges. Put service to work to solve our most pressing challenges, such as tackling the dropout crisis and strengthening our schools; improving energy efficiency; safeguarding the environment; [...]
Did you know that T-Pain was going to Guyana? But then didn’t because of threats to his life? To make matters worse, he is now being sued for cancelling the show! Apparently this elevates the rapper to baller status, considering I found the following article on BallerStatus.com: T-Pain Sued Over Guyana Concert Cancellation Posted on [...]
(via Idealist.org) I wrote on The New Service blog today that national service is a popular way to give back. More than that, it is effective and cost-efficient. It’s expanding the human resource capacity of nonprofits, and providing many people with much needed bridges into meaningful career paths. To find out if your senator agrees, [...]
THE WHITE DIAMOND is a film about the daring adventure of exploring rainforest canopy with a novel flying device-the Jungle Airship. Airship engineer Dr.Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the tree-tops. But this logistic effort will not be [...]
Join the Peace Corps web team as our Information Technology Specialist (Internet), providing front-end web support for www.peacecorps.gov. Be part of our mission to promote world peace and friendship by helping share the Peace Corps story and helping find the next generation of Peace Corps Volunteers. The Peace Corps website is part of the innovative [...]
(via google.com) The British Embassy said Sunday it has received a new video showing one of five British hostages seized by gunmen from Iraq’s Finance Ministry nearly two years ago. The footage, which apparently was filmed as recently as last week, was the second videotape to be confirmed in just over a year. The kidnappers [...]
(via thefriendlyneighbor.blogspot.com) Today, the AP reported that the Peace Corps is evacuating its 112 members from Madagascar after political unrest in January produced a president hostage at the hands of a military coup. This event makes Madagascar the second country this year to directly or inadvertantly remove U.S. personnel from their borders. Earlier in January, [...]
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